contribution by Lichtenberg (2004), which relates longevity in the United States to pharmaceutical innovation and public health … ; Innovation ; Pharmaceuticals ; Health care expenditure ; Cointegration …

I investigate the contribution of pharmaceutical innovation to recent longevity growth in Germany and France. First, I …-2006. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation accounted for at least one-sixth of the decline in French cancer …

We use longitudinal, disease-level data to analyze the impact of pharmaceutical innovation on longevity and medical … expenditure in Sweden, where mean age at death increased by 1.88 years during the period 1997-2010. Pharmaceutical innovation is … the number of drugs to treat a disease, not the number of drug classes. Pharmaceutical innovation also reduced hospital …

NBER Bulletin on Aging and Health by email. We investigate the effect of therapeutic procedure innovation in general on the … Medicare Benefits Schedule.Estimates based on patient-level data indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the ….. Estimates based on longitudinal DRG-level data also indicate that therapeutic procedure innovation increased the life expectancy …

important innovations since 1997. We investigate the impact of recent chemotherapy innovation on the longevity of myeloma … post-1997 chemotherapy innovation did not exceed $45,551. We also investigate the impact of chemotherapy innovation on the …, controlling for other factors. The estimates imply that chemotherapy innovation reduced the age-adjusted myeloma cancer mortality …